Hi there and thanks for coming over to www.talkandspoon.com to check out the greatest brunch I’ve ever had! And I mean that in terms of variety, quantity AND quality! You might have seen SANSIBAR on the blog before. It’s another one of those places we keep coming […]

  While in Sylt, we had the pleasure of some English friends visiting us for a couple of days. Apart from many bike rides around the island and time spent at the beach, we absolutely had to take them for dinner. I’ve written about HOOG before – […]

  A trip to GOGÄRTCHEN is a must for my family every time we’re in Sylt. It’s quite a fine dining restaurant, from the ingredients and the way the food is prepared. However, they have recently adopted a more relaxed approach with the waiters wearing jeans and […]

  If you’ve been a long-time reader of my blog, you’ll know about Sylt. It’s an island in the north sea that my family have been visiting over the German summer since my dad was about 12 years old. In the 70s, my grandparents bought […]

I can’t believe it’s been so long since DS and I were in Germany and I got to show him another one of my ‘homes’. It’s been nice going through photos of when we were there (especially all the places we ate at) and today […]

So many fun dishes to share with you in this post it’s making me all giddy! Went to Sansibar in Sylt (tiny island in Germany in the North Sea) for my birthday this year and it was all kinds of awesome – particularly mind blowing was […]

Bringing you a little bit more of our trip to Germany back in July (seems like ages ago now…) – we headed to Gogärtchen in Kampen, which has become a bit of an establishment ever since it opened as a humble cafe in 1951.

The first time I encountered Sansibar was in fact not through food, but through a pair of slippers. Turns out Sansibar is a whole brand of stuff – including condiments, apparel and a restaurant. Several years ago I spied a pair of slippers perfect for […]

After a 30+ hour journey (various photos of which can be found on Instagram), across basically all continents, across all cultures that I am from, and using various forms of transport I have arrived at the small, idyllic island of Sylt. Sylt is located in […]